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Titan (submersible)
''Titan'', previously called ''Cyclops 2'', was a submersible created and operated by underwater exploration company OceanGate. It was the first privately-owned submersible with a claimed maximum depth of , and the first completed crewed submersible with a hull constructed of titanium and carbon fiber composite materials. After testing with dives to its maximum intended depth in 2018 and 2019, the original composite hull of ''Titan'' developed fatigue (material), fatigue damage and was replaced by 2021. In that year, OceanGate began transporting paying customers to the Wreck of the Titanic, wreck of the ''Titanic'', completing several dives to the wreck site in 2021 and 2022. During the submersible’s first 2023 expedition, all five occupants were killed when Titan submersible implosion, the vessel imploded. OceanGate lost contact with ''Titan'' on 18 June and contacted authorities later that day after the submersible was overdue for return. A massive international search and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frustum
In geometry, a (from the Latin for "morsel"; plural: ''frusta'' or ''frustums'') is the portion of a solid (normally a pyramid or a cone) that lies between two parallel planes cutting this solid. In the case of a pyramid, the base faces are polygonal, the side faces are trapezoidal. A right frustum is a right pyramid or a right cone truncated perpendicularly to its axis; otherwise it is an oblique frustum. If all its edges are forced to become of the same length, then a frustum becomes a prism (possibly oblique or/and with irregular bases). In computer graphics, the viewing frustum is the three-dimensional region which is visible on the screen. It is formed by a clipped pyramid; in particular, '' frustum culling'' is a method of hidden surface determination. In the aerospace industry, a frustum is the fairing between two stages of a multistage rocket (such as the Saturn V), which is shaped like a truncated cone. Elements, special cases, and related concepts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DOER Marine
DOER Marine (Deep Ocean Exploration and Research) is a marine technology company established in 1992 by oceanographer Sylvia Earle, based in Alameda, California. It is developing a vehicle, Deepsearch (and Ocean Explorer HOV Unlimited), with some support from Google Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...'s Eric Schmidt with which a crew of two or three will take 90 minutes to reach the seabed, as the program Deep Search. References {{reflist External linksDOER Marine website Companies based in Alameda, California Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area 1992 establishments in California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global News
Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network. The network is owned by Corus Entertainment, which oversees all of the network's national news programming as well as local news on its 21 owned-and-operated stations. Corus also operates several talk radio stations under the "Global News Radio" brand. The same division also operates a news website under the same brand. National programs Global's lineup of national news and current affairs programming is as follows: * '' The Morning Show'': Weekdays 9:00 a.m. ET/CT/MT/PT, 10:00 a.m. AT. Jeff McArthur and Carolyn MacKenzie host the Morning Show. * '' Global National'': Nightly 7:00 p.m. NT, 6:30 p.m. AT/ET, 5:30 p.m. CKWS/CHEX/CT/MT/PT, 6:00 p.m. Kelowna and Montreal. Global National is anchored by Dawna Friesen from Monday to Thursday and Farah Nasser from Friday to Sunday. * '' The West Block'': Sundays 10:00 a.m. PT/MT, 11:00 a.m. ET/CT, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Sorensen (journalist)
Eric Sorensen is a Canadian television journalist."Global News Appoints Eric Sorensen As New Washington Bureau Chief". Canadian Press, October 17, 2006. He has been the national affairs correspondent for '' Global National'' since early 2014, and previously served as Washington, D.C. bureau chief for ''Global National'', from November 2006 to 2014."Sorensen to run Global's Washington bureau". '' Windsor Star'', October 19, 2006. Sorensen was previously a reporter for CBC Television's '' The National'' from 1992 until joining Global News in 2006. Born in Hearst, Ontario and raised in Port Colborne, Ontario,"New CBET anchor well-travelled". '' Windsor Star'', September 18, 1990. He began his broadcasting career in 1973 after graduating from the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute radio and television arts program. He worked for a variety of television and radio stations across Canada before joining the CBC's national news division, and was the first Canadian to receive the Benton Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The News-Press
''The News-Press'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper located in Fort Myers, Florida, serving primarily Lee County, as well as parts of Hendry, Collier, and Charlotte Counties. The paper publishes several editions of its "Local & State" (metro) section for suburban communities, including Bonita Springs (beautiful), eng, beautiful springs , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = Bonita_Beach.JPG , imagesize = 250x200px , image_caption = Bonita Beach , image_flag ..., Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers, and South Fort Myers. Further, special sections are published on the paper's Web site, including "Education", "Environment", and "Growth/Development". The newspaper offers home delivery. Daily, Monday-Saturday, and Sunday-only are the home delivery choices, and delivery is guaranteed by 6am on weekdays and 7am on weekends. The carriers are all independent contractors who must use the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Oceanic
Virgin Oceanic (originally Virgin Aquatic) is an undersea leisure venture of Newport Beach, CA businessman Chris Welsh and Sir Richard Branson, part of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. The brand was first reported in a 2009 Time Magazine interview.Time Magazine"Virgin Founder Richard Branson" Dan Fletcher, ''1 September 2009'' The flagship service provided by Virgin Oceanic was intended to take visitors to the deepest parts of the ocean; however, as of late 2014, the project has been put on hold until more suitable technologies are developed. Fleet * Necker Belle — sailing catamaran yacht * Necker Nymph — open-cockpit SCUBA submersible * Cheyenne — sailing catamaran yacht * DeepFlight Challenger — high-depth submersible Shallow diving program The company is offering a shallow water "wet" submersible, Graham Hawkes's Hawkes Ocean Technologies Deep Flight Merlin named ''Necker Nymph'' after Branson's private island in the British Virgin Islands, Virgin L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called ''Student''. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In 1997, Branson founded the Virgin Rail Group to bid for passenger rail franchises during the privatisation of British Rail. The Virgin Trains brand operated the InterCity West Coast franchise from 1997 to 2019, the InterCity CrossCountry franchise from 1997 to 2007, and the InterCity East Coast franchise from 2015 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Hawkes
Graham Hawkes (born 23 December 1947)Times-News, "Graham Hawkes Is Racing To Ocean's Bottom", ''5 September 1993'', NYT Regional Newspapers is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Hawkes designed 70% of the manned submersibles produced in those two decades.SF Weekly"36,000 Feet Under the Sea" Lisa Davis, ''10 June 1998'' (accessed 12 September 2010) As late as 2007, he held the world solo dive record of ANSYS Advantage, "Taking Next-Generation Submersibles to New Depths", A. Wright, Volume 1, Issue 1, ''2007'(accessed 12 September 2010) in the submarine Deep Rover. Hawkes invented the first robotic machine gun, the ''Telepresent Rapid Aiming Platform'' (TRAP), the first weapon he designed. He had been inspired to create a safer way for police to deal with situations after watching a shootout in North Hollywood, Los Angeles on television. Career In 1976, in association with OSEL of Great Yarmouth, Hawkes designed the one-atmosphe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Fossett
James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set more than one hundred records in five different sports, sixty of which still stood at the time of his death. He broke three of the seven absolute world records for fixed-wing aircraft recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, all in his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer. In 2002, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club of the UK, and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2007. Fossett disappeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeepFlight Challenger
DeepFlight Challenger is a one-person personal submarine deep submergence vehicle with full ocean depth capability. It is an "aero-submarine" which uses hydrodynamic forces to descend, as the sub has positive buoyancy, utilizing DeepFlight technology from Hawkes Ocean Technologies. The submarine is currently owned by Virgin Oceanic. History The submarine was designed by Graham Hawkes and Hawkes Ocean Technologies. It was originally ordered by Steve Fossett for an attempt on the Challenger Deep, to become the first solo dive there.Virgin OceanicSub (accessed 27 March 2012)CNet News Daniel Terdiman, 3 October 2008 (accessed 27 March 2012) Planning for the submarine started in 2000.New York Times"The Challenger’s Deep-Sea Brethren" Andy Isaacson, 27 March 2012 (accessed 27 March 2012) It was put on the ordersheet in 2005, with a depth capability of 37,000 ft.Hawkes Ocean TechnologiesInfosheet DeepFlight Challenger (accessed 27 March 2012) The craft was named "Challenger" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Washington
The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle approximately a decade after the city's founding. The university has a 703 acre main campus located in the city's University District, as well as campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. Overall, UW encompasses over 500 buildings and over 20 million gross square footage of space, including one of the largest library systems in the world with more than 26 university libraries, art centers, museums, laboratories, lecture halls, and stadiums. The university offers degrees through 140 departments, and functions on a quarter system. Washington is the flagship institution of the six public universities in Washington state. It is known for its medical, engineering, and scientific research. Washington is a member of the Association of American Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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